Front Cover -- critique influence change -- About the Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword to the critique influence change Edition -- Preface to the critique influence change Edition -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction -- Part I: The Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction -- Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues -- Key Questions -- Critical Issues -- 1: External Debt: Abolish the Debt in Order to Free Development -- Breaking the Infernal Cycle of Debt -- Extra Resources to Finance Development -- A New Development Strategy -- New Rules of Financial Good Practice -- Further Indispensable Measures -- Notes -- 2: Africa/Brazil: Conference Synthesis -- 3: Financial Capital: Controls on Finance Capital -- Introduction -- Restore Controls over Capital Flows to Nation-States -- Promote Control of Capital Flows -- Reinforce Control of Markets and Financial Actors -- Reform the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) -- 4: International Trade: Conference Synthesis -- Broad Consensus on Free Trade and the WTO -- Proposals by Dot Keet, Africa Trade Network -- Proposals on the WTO by Martin Khor, Third World Network -- Proposals by Paul Nicholson, Via Campesina -- Proposals by Hector de la Cueva, Alianza Social Continental -- Proposal by Lori Wallach, Public Citizen -- Final proposals by the panellists -- 5: Transnational Corporations: Issues and Proposals -- Summary Proposal -- Corporations Have Too Much Power -- Governments and Corporations are Intimately Intertwined -- Sectors, Individual Corporations, Structural Power -- Dialogue versus Confrontation -- Corporate Responsibility versus Corporate Accountability versus Democratic Control over Corporations -- Reform versus Banishment -- 6: Labour.

(i) A Strategic Perspective on the International Trade Union Movement for the Twenty-first Century -- Introduction -- Perspective on Transformative Unionism - Values, Ethics, Beliefs and Traditions -- Our Socio-Economic Outlook -- Organizational Review and Restructuring -- The Perspective for Africa and the South -- Conclusion -- (ii) A Global Strategy for Labour -- Investor Protectionism -- Capital's Gains -- Global Class Politics -- Trade Unions' Role -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7: A Solidarity Economy -- (i) Resist and Build -- Social, Solidarity-based Economics -- Social, Solidarity-Based Economics and Development of Communities -- (ii) Conference Synthesis -- Questions -- Analyses -- Proposals -- Consensus and Differences of Opinion -- Lead Participants -- Part II: Access to Wealth and Sustainability -- Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues -- Key Questions -- Critical Issues -- 8: Environment and Sustainability -- (i) The Living Democracy Movement: Alternatives to the Bankruptcy of Globalization -- Bankruptcy of Globalization -- Creating Alternatives to Corporate Globalization -- Creative Resistance -- The Living Democracy Movement -- (ii) Conference Synthesis -- Summary Document -- 9: Water - A Common Good: Conference Synthesis -- Key Themes -- Social Groups Involved -- Analysis -- Proposals -- Sustainable Water Management -- The Fight against Dams -- 10: Knowledge, Copyright and Patents -- (i) Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Gap -- The First Problem - The Rules -- The Second Problem - Their Impact -- Campaign Strategies -- Conclusion -- (ii) Conference Synthesis -- Context -- The Problem -- The Alternatives: Three Levels -- 11: Medicine, Health, AIDS: Conference Synthesis -- Access to Essential Medicines -- A Brief Note on the Brazilian Experience -- The Global Campaigns and their Results -- Arguments Used by Global Campaigns.

Challenges and Priorities -- Doha: Challenges that Persist -- Palestine: A Motion of Protest -- Notes -- 12: Food: People's Right to Produce, Feed Themselves and Exercise their Food Sovereignty -- The Real Causes of Hunger and Malnutrition -- The Consequences of Neoliberal Policies -- 13: Cities, Urban Population: Conference Synthesis -- 14: Indigenous Peoples -- (i) Indigenous Commission Statement -- (ii) Conference Synthesis -- Background -- Proposals -- Part III: The Affirmation of Civil Society and Public Space -- Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues -- Key Questions -- Critical Issues -- 15: The Media: Democratization of Communications and the Media -- The Issues -- Proposals for Alternative Approaches -- 16: Education: Conference Synthesis -- Action by Civil Society -- Education as a Liberating Tool -- Outrage over Poverty -- Education and Emancipation -- Essential Principles of this Fight -- 17: Culture: Cultural Diversity, Cultural Production and Identity -- Introduction -- Context -- Globalization -- Culture -- Cultural Diversity and Identity -- Cultural Production, Diversity and Identity -- Conclusion -- Proposals -- 18: Violence -- (i) Violence Against Women: The 'Other World' Must Act -- Introduction -- Violence against Women: A Transnational and Transcultural Reality -- The Multiple Manifestations of Violence against Women -- Fundamentalist Regimes: Extreme Examples of the Institutionalization of Violence against Women -- Rape as a Weapon of War -- Women Fight Back and Organize -- The Causes of Violence against Women -- The Consequences of Violence against Women -- Violence against Women and Liberal Globalization -- The Sex Trade: A Vastly Profitable Industry -- Alternatives, Perspectives and Directions to Take, Towards the Complete Elimination of All Forms of Violence against Women.

(ii) Conference Synthesis on the Culture of Violence and Domestic Violence -- 19: Discrimination and Intolerance -- (i) Combating Discrimination and Intolerance -- Background to the Situation of Dalits in India -- Continued Practice of Untouchability -- Extreme Poverty -- Recommended Strategies -- (ii) Conference Synthesis -- Questions -- Analysis -- Proposals That Have Been Identified -- Convergences and Differences: Points of Debate in Civil Society -- Stakeholders -- 20: Migration and the Traffic in People: The Contradictions of Globalization -- 'Today the World Is Global' -- Understanding Globalization -- The Shifting Paradigm of Migration: From Industrialization to Globalization -- Characteristics of Current Migration Flows -- The European Case: Towards a 'Precarious Immigration' -- What Action is to be Taken vis-à-vis Globalization? -- 21 The Global Civil Society Movement -- (i) Discussion Document -- The Movement against Neoliberal Globalization -- Heterogeneity and Diversity: A 'Movement of Movements' -- Porto Alegre: The Parliament of the People -- From Porto Alegre to Genoa: International Convergence and the Vilification of the Movement -- Neo-Colonial War and New Challenges for the Movement -- (ii) Conference Synthesis -- Background to the Conference -- Key Questions -- Leading Actors -- Relevant Analyses -- Points of Agreement and Disagreement -- Part IV: Political Power and Ethics in the New Society -- Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues -- Key Questions -- Critical Issues -- 22: The International Architecture of Power -- (i) International Organizations and the Architecture of World Power -- Proposal for a Pluralistic System of Global Economic Governance -- What is Deglobalization -- Pluralist Global Governance -- Note -- (ii) Conference Synthesis -- Questions Prepared by the Facilitator -- Proposals -- Points of Convergence.

Agents of Change -- 23: Militarism and Globalization: Conference Synthesis -- The Central Question of the Conference -- James Petras -- Claude Serfati -- Lily Traubman -- Hector Mondragón -- Alfredo Wagner -- Dianne Luping -- Proposals -- 24: Human Rights: Conference Synthesis on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Establishment of a Permanent Forum on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- The Primacy of Human Rights -- Support for the Draft Optional Protocol to the ICESCR -- 25: Sovereignty, Nation, Empire -- 26: Democracy: Participatory Democracy -- Two Opposing Views on the Future of Humankind -- Participation Demands Political Decentralization and Devolution of Powers, both Political and Economic -- Economics -- Ethics -- Politics -- 27: Values -- (i) Values of a New Civilization -- Qualitative Values -- Liberty -- Equality and Fraternity -- Democracy as an Indispensable Value -- The Environment -- Socialism as an Alternative -- Notes -- (ii) Feminism and the Three Enlightenment Ideals -- Epilogue: Social Movements' Manifesto -- Resistance to Neoliberalism, War and Militarism -- For Peace and Social Justice -- Appendix 1: World Social Forum Charter of Principles -- Appendix 2: World Social Forum 2003: Contacts -- Index -- Back Cover.